Everything Barbra Streisand Eats in Her 970-Page Memoir

“I ne'er hide the radical who provender me,” Barbra Streisand writes successful My Name Is Barbra, her 3-pound, 3-ounce memoir, successful which, it is clear, she ne'er forgets anything. Every lens, shot, triumph, gripe, and grudge is preserved for posterity and so, we person learned, is each snack.

Though Streisand’s 970-page tome much than covers her top hits — Funny Girl and Yentl, her 50 workplace albums, her strained narration with her mother, and however overmuch she wanted to fuck Marlon Brando (but past declined to bash truthful erstwhile presented with respective opportunities) — she spills much ink connected the assorted nutrient choices she made implicit the people of her 50-plus-year vocation than connected perfectly thing else. Food informs her life, her creation (Barbra and Fanny Brice, her quality successful Funny Girl, “both had Jewish mothers who were acrophobic astir nutrient and marrying america disconnected … not needfully successful that order”), and her much-examined psychology. As she explains, “I devour erstwhile I’m nervous. (Well, I besides devour erstwhile I’m not nervous.)”

EGOT Streisand has already won the coveted awards quartet but now, for the archetypal time, we are pleased to bestow her with New York Magazine’s Schnorrer Award for Hungriest Diva. (The sanction derives from Jerry Robbins’ contention that the peerless Streisand — brushed S, similar “sand” — “accepts the 12 pages of caller worldly to spell successful that evening’s show and pores implicit them portion schnorring portion of your sandwich and idiosyncratic else’s Coke.”) Over pints of McConnell’s Brazilian Coffee crystal pick — Barbra’s favorite, overmuch rarer than the supermarket-available Turkish Coffee, and special-ordered from the brand’s Santa Barbara HQ, conscionable arsenic Barbra orders it connected the acceptable of The Guilt Trip (2012) — we rounded up each azygous happening Streisand mentions eating implicit the people of astir of her life, from earliest puerility to the 2nd Clinton inauguration and beyond. We invitation you to travel her breadcrumb trail. You tin adjacent devour along, since, arsenic Barbra writes, fame oregon nary fame, “No substance who you are, you tin lone devour 1 pastrami sandwich astatine a time.”

NB. Ellipses astir ever hers.

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A large portion of kosher cake (yellow cake, dark-chocolate icing) astatine Bais Yaakov [27], Barbra’s Catskills Jewish summertime camp, whose nutrient was different uninspiring (potatoes “probably from a can” that “tasted fake”). The cake, connected the different hand, Barbra has “been searching for ever since ….” The closest she’s come, she aboriginal revelas, are “Fischer’s cupcakes.” See also, chocolate blackout barroom from Ebinger’s, a German bakery adjacent her flat gathering successful Brooklyn. (pp. 7, 27)

Cinnamon cookies, made by her grandma for Hanukkah 1 twelvemonth aft Barbra, her older brother, and their parent determination successful with Diana’s parents aft the untimely decease of her father. (p. 9)

Cod-liver oil, prescribed by Diana Streisand to close her daughter’s evident “sickliness,” which was further treated by a “health camp” where, naturally, Barbra develops an allergy to the trees “which aboriginal turned into asthma.” (pp. 10-11)

Lap cheong (Chinese sausage), Chinese cabbage, steamed chicken, and ovum rolls astatine Choy’s Chinese restaurant, wherever Barbra takes a occupation arsenic a cashier to marque wealth for pinkish satin toed shoes. Choy’s proprietress, Muriel, became a surrogate parent to Barbra, and ever after, she looks for those “fat, dry” ovum rolls wherever she goes, uncovering them occasionally capable — “hardly anyone makes [them] anymore” — that erstwhile she does, she and Jim “sometimes devour 3 astatine a time.” (p. 15)

Breyer’s java crystal cream, eaten from a quadrate container wherever it sandwiched a cardinal file of cherry vanilla. Despite the “whole pieces of cherry,” Barbra preferred the java (a lifelong preference, see also McConnell’s Brazilian Coffee) and would devour the cherry vanilla archetypal and prevention the java for afterward truthful that would “be the sensation that lingered successful my mouth.” Regrettably, portion successful her aboriginal days she used to devour “a pint of java crystal pick whenever I could and inactive enactment skinny arsenic a rail,” she notes that this is nary longer the case. (p. 23)

Mello-Rolls, commercially produced ice-cream cones that Barbra opines are the champion ice-cream cones, and which she would get astatine the Loew’s Kings Theatre successful Flatbush, wherever she archetypal saw the films Kiss Me Kate (1953) and Guys and Dolls (1955). Mello-Rolls are “flat connected apical with the crystal pick packed inside, each the mode down to the bottommost of the cone,” which is “very practical” due to the fact that of “fewer drips.” Barbra has “never seen thing similar it earlier oregon since.” (23)

Licorice, chiefly Good & Plenty, which Barbra describes arsenic similar “eating jewelry,” and which she would get, on with 2 boxes of peanut M&Ms astatine the movies; but also, “red and greenish and brown, arsenic good arsenic black” licorice astatine the Italian candy store successful her vicinity successful Brooklyn. (pp. 23, 27)

Charlotte Russe, bought from Schneley’s Jewish bakery, which she’d bargain “just due to the fact that it looked truthful beauteous with that cherry connected top.” (p. 27)

Sour greenish tomatoes, lox, and smoked butterfish, from Besterman’s, the section “appetizing” store (a word utilized predominantly by Ashkenazi Jews for the assortment of spreads, fishes, and delicacies eaten with bagels). The butterfish’s “shiny golden skin” “tasted great.” (p. 27)

Egg creams, which Barbra does not recognize the naming of, since “there’s nary ovum successful them.” (An ovum pick is simply a premix of milk, seltzer, and Fox’s U-Bet cocoa syrup.) Egg oregon nary egg, Barbra prefers these to the malteds (drinks made with malted beverage powder, similar Ovaltine, mixed with milk, crystal cream, oregon both) Diana Stresiand “always tried” to springiness her to “fatten [her] up.” (p. 27)

Campbell’s herb crockery and grilled-cheese sandwiches at Malden Bridge summertime banal theatre arsenic a teenager: “Nothing better!” Also peanut food and jelly connected white. Previously, she had been utilized to bologna and Velveeta cheese. (p. 29)

Peas with sweetener and breadcrumbs astatine the location of Allan and Anita Miller, histrion and acting teacher, who would spell connected to go lifelong friends (and Allan, her aboriginal acting teacher). These peas were “delicious,” and Barbra “can inactive sensation them.” (p. 34)

A cocoa chip, which Barbra chooses to play the portion of successful 1 of Allan Miller’s acting classes erstwhile asked to prime an inanimate entity to impersonate. “First I imagined I was enactment into a hunk of dough on with my chap chips, being kneaded and shaped into a cooky … pushed around. Then I was placed wrong a blistery oven. Oh, the agony of it! I began to melt. That was painful. Then abruptly I was taken retired into the acold aerial and, for a moment, I was relieved … the chill aerial soothed my blistery body. But I didn’t recognize I would rapidly go stiff and coagulated … misshapen … paralyzed. I couldn’t move. Here I was, stuck connected a tray with different cookies, waiting to beryllium eaten … Aaargh!!!!” Barbra “thinks it was 1 of [her] champion pieces of work.” (p. 35)

An egg-salad sandwich, which she throws up owed to nerves, earlier her archetypal nonrecreational signifier performance, arsenic Lorna successful Driftwood “off-off-off-Broadway” soon aft graduating from Erasmus High School. (p. 40)

Sliced lamb from the Automat, which makes Barbra sick and she doesn’t devour lamb for years; she prefers the Automat’s saccharine potatoes. (p. 42)

A roast pork sandwich with mayonnaise connected achromatic bread, which Barbra gets from the Gentile deli. Sacrilegiously, she prefers these to Jewish delis, which springiness you “too overmuch meat” and she “couldn’t get [her] rima astir those sandwiches.” (p. 42)

Cottage cheese, eaten retired of the container, successful acting class, which attracts the announcement of Cis Corman, who would go a lifelong friend. (p. 43)

Smoked salmon, murphy salad, sliced fruit, and crystal cream astatine Cis and Harvey Corman’s, 2 much of Barbra’s surrogate genitor figures. (p. 44)

A baked potato, precise good done, “crispy connected the extracurricular and brushed inside, conscionable the mode I similar it,” astatine the 24-hour Pam Pam, where Barbra goes aft opening nighttime of her unrecorded enactment astatine the Bon Soir, September 9, 1960. The Pam Pam “also had a large medium-rare hamburger.” (p. 61)

“Guggle-muggle,” a concoction made (or invented?) by Diana Streisand of lukewarm cocoa beverage with a earthy egg, utilized to fatten Barbra up. Diana attends the 2nd nighttime of Barbra’s Bon Soir acceptable and advises her to portion 1 due to the fact that “Your dependable isn’t beardown enough.” (The New York Times, Barbra notes, called her a “vibrant-voiced gamin [sic].”) (p. 62)

Egg-and-lemon crockery (avgolemono) and spanakopita astatine “the Greek place.” Also corned beef and cabbage astatine “one of those Irish places connected Eighth Avenue.” By contrast, Barbra’s archetypal manager (“the lone Gentile manager successful the business”) takes her to a “fancy edifice with red-velvet chairs and achromatic tablecloths. That was new.” (p. 65)

Oreos, creme (“that achromatic guck”) removed, which young Barbra carries astir arsenic a snack, due to the fact that “you ne'er cognize erstwhile you’ll privation a snack.” Also unsalted pretzels and almonds. She traces this compulsion to the “collective unconscious of European Jews, due to the fact that what if a pogrom came and you had to get crossed the borderline fast? You person to person a small thing to devour until you get to the adjacent country.” (p. 80)

Fish that doesn’t smell, the lone food Barbra tin eat, due to the fact that her paternal grandparents owned a food store, and she can’t hide “the show and odor of each those dormant fish.” (p. 84)

Corned beef, pastrami, pickles, and coleslaw, sent by her soon-to-be archetypal husband, Elliott Gould, with the note, “From the Deli Lama.” (p. 94)

Corn soup (a tin of maize positive milk, heated) and corn fritters (corn positive Aunt Jemima pancake mix, fried successful Crisco), which she cooks for Elliott Gould successful their small apartment. (p. 99)

Swanson’s TV dinners and Sara Lee lb cake, for meal with Elliott Gould successful their apartment. Swanson’s fried chickenhearted was “the tallness of culinary goodness, arsenic acold arsenic I was concerned.” (p. 99)

A chickenhearted sandwich connected achromatic breadstuff with mayonnaise, prepared by Funny Girl composer Jule Styne’s English wife, Maggie. “Delicious.” (p. 108)

Cheeseburgers and French fries connected her honeymoon with Elliott Gould. Gould takes her to Esalen, the New Age retreat, but there’s nary TV successful their room, and adjacent worse, nary country service. “I was usd to the Catskills, wherever you could get a pastrami sandwich and astatine immoderate hr of the time oregon night,” Barbra says. So they determination to a adjacent motel, stopping for cheeseburgers astatine a diner on the way. (p. 144)

Smoked whitefish, an aboriginal constituent of transportation with Marvin Hamlisch, whom Barbra meets arsenic a rehearsal pianist connected Funny Girl; Marvin knew which deli had the champion mentation (and later, erstwhile Barbra is “obsessed with quenelles,” Marvin is “one of the fewer radical who adjacent knew what they were and could urge a edifice that served them”). As a composer, Hamlisch would spell connected to constitute (among overmuch else) the people and the rubric opus to The Way We Were (for each of which helium won the Oscar; Barbra was nominated for her pb show but lost). (p. 155)

Rice pudding, without raisins, arsenic Barbra prefers it, though it’s harder to find, astatine a 24-hour diner connected Tenth Avenue. (p. 180)

A pastrami sandwich connected rye (attempted) astatine the Hotel Hassler successful Rome, wherever Barbra is sent with Richard Avedon by Vogue for a couture shoot. Room work cannot proviso it. (p. 216)

Bouillabaisse successful Marseille, wherever Barbra goes to spot Jacques Brel perform, and which she eats aft a double-scoop ice-cream cone erstwhile her edifice surprises her by preparing it. “The stew tasted precise garlicky aft the crystal cream,” Barbra says, “and thing successful it decidedly didn’t hold with me, due to the fact that I started throwing up a fewer hours later.” For 10 days, “every burp reminded maine of that bouillabaisse.” (p. 217)

Fish and chips and roast beef and Yorkshire pudding in London, during rehearsals for the London tally of Funny Girl. (p. 219-220)

Seafood connected the h2o with Omar Sharif portion filming Funny Girl (the movie version). (p. 248)

Gum, astatine the 41st Academy Awards successful 1968, wherever Barbra tied for Best Actress (in Funny Girl) with Katharine Hepburn (in The Lion successful Winter). “I had to rapidly instrumentality retired my gum and enactment it connected the bottommost of my seat, each the portion frantically thinking, What the hellhole americium I going to say?” (p. 263)

“Great” vichyssoise, steak Diane, and cocoa soufflé, astatine the Oak Room astatine the Plaza, a mounting she specifically suggested to Gene Kelly owed to the perceived prime of these 3 nutrient items, and truthful the 2 could sermon making Hello, Dolly. (p. 274)

Dumplings made of ovum whites and turkey that “got adust precise rapidly nether the lights,” on the acceptable of Hello, Dolly, a movie she hated making, and the tract of her yearslong feud with co-star Walter Matthau. “I had to support eating arsenic we talked. Walter had precise fewer lines, but helium kept flubbing them, truthful we had to bash the country implicit and implicit again. All that nutrient was making maine sick to my stomach, and Walter seemed to beryllium enjoying my discomfort … On my umpteenth bite, I started to choke. At that constituent I conscionable had had enough, and said, ‘I can’t bash this.’ I didn’t shriek oregon rise my voice. I conscionable got up and turned to Gene [Kelly] and told him, ‘I’ll beryllium backmost erstwhile helium knows his lines.’” (p. 281)

Hamburgers, with Marlon Brando, connected a time travel to the godforsaken years aft helium told her helium would similar to “fuck her” and she said “that sounds awful,” due to the fact that she was “insecure sexually,” but  “today would beryllium much adventurous.” (p. 289)

McConnell’s Brazilian Coffee crystal cream, “packed into a crisp cone and handed to you astatine their store successful Santa Barbara … By the way, you can’t get McConnell’s crystal pick astatine conscionable immoderate supermarket and this peculiar spirit is adjacent harder to find,” a representation she recalls fondly erstwhile Marlon Brando shows up to a meal enactment astatine Quincy Jones’s weighing “probably 280 pounds” and “told maine helium was eating a quart of crystal pick each night.” Barbra “could subordinate … I emotion crystal cream, too.” (p. 295)

Vegetarian food, astatine Deepak Chopra’s retreat successful Massachusetts, wherever Barbra had out-of-body meditation acquisition that convinced her that reincarnation is real. When she returned home, she had the pursuing experience, which tin lone beryllium described arsenic the Most Barbra Streisand Thing Ever Committed to Print: “Donna [Karan] and I drove backmost to New York. When I got to my apartment, I went retired connected the terrace extracurricular my chamber to look astatine the flowers that had been planted successful the boxes portion I was gone. I had ordered mums successful pinkish and white, but these were rust and yellow! I called the works spot and said, ‘These flowers are the incorrect color.’ The antheral said, ‘Oh, the nursery didn’t person pinkish and achromatic truthful we got these.’ I said, ‘well, didn’t it hap to anyone to inquire maine earlier you planted these?’ And past I thought, What the hell. It was specified an ordeal conscionable to get flowers and potting ungraded up to the 22nd floor. Besides, I didn’t privation to termination the mediocre things by throwing them out. A mates of weeks later, Cis peeked done the curtains and said, ‘Oh, you changed the flowers.’ I said, ‘What? I ne'er changed them.’ She said, ‘Well, they’re pinkish and achromatic now.’ I couldn’t judge it. How did rust crook to dusty roseate and yellowish to achromatic … conscionable what I wanted! I instantly called the works palace to spot if they were a peculiar benignant of mum that changes color. ‘No,’ was the answer. Then I called Deepak and asked him, ‘What’s going on? How did those flowers alteration color?’ He said, ‘Well, you intelligibly haven’t work the publication I gave you.’ ‘No,’ I told him. ‘I haven’t had a accidental yet.’ ‘Well, look astatine the section astir desire.’ So I looked astatine the book. And definite enough, it was astir however tendency tin manifest change. Had the flowers changed colour due to the fact that I wanted them to? Maybe this was different illustration of that precise quiescent but precise aggravated powerfulness of the will, the benignant of volition that I had felt emergence up successful maine erstwhile I stood successful the doorway of my chamber arsenic a teenager, wanting to beryllium a celebrated histrion who could spend to person idiosyncratic other marque my bed.” (p. 301)

Brownies with walnuts, connected a backstage level to England to sprout On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. In the mediate of a communicative astir however she met composer/producer/director Richard Baskin, Barbra characteristically digresses: “Shirley [Baskin] brought a container of brownies with her and passed them astir connected the plane. Oh my God, they were the greatest. They had walnuts successful them! Now, I recognize wherefore radical don’t marque brownies with walnuts anymore, due to the fact that of seed allergies. But brownies without walnuts? What’s the point? If I’m ever fixed plain ones, I get immoderate walnuts and propulsion a fewer into each brownie.”

A caller paragraph: “Well, for years Shirley told radical that I had eaten the full container of brownies connected the plane, which is simply a implicit exaggeration … Although I admit I astir apt had much than 2 (maybe six … they were little!) A fewer years ago, I went to her creation opening (she covers objects successful beauteous lacquered postage stamps) and we laughed again astir whether oregon not I ate the full box. She was a beauteous woman who lived to beryllium 101.”

Another caller paragraph: “Back to the movie and the royal pavilion,” (p. 307)

Peach pie, at the Hamptons location of her The Owl and the Pussycat co-star, George Segal. After a agelong rant astir however overmuch she couldn’t basal the film’s producer, Ray Stark (he wanted her to sing successful the movie, astir which she said to a journalist, “How galore singing prostitutes bash you know?”), Barbra “vividly” remembers visiting Segal and his wife, Marion, astatine their location successful the Hamptons for the aforementioned pie. “It was the champion I’ve ever tasted, with caller peaches and homemade whipped pick … not excessively sweet.” (p. 315)

Appetizer of hearts of palm, past roast duckling, and tapioca for dessert, on a archetypal day with Canadian premier curate Pierre Trudeau, astatine Casa Brasil connected the Upper East Side, wherever determination were nary printed menus and lone 2 seatings each evening, truthful you had to marque reservations. Barbra was dismayed astatine the tapioca. “I hatred Jell-O and I couldn’t devour junket (ugh!), but each truthful often my parent made tapioca, which I loved. But erstwhile the tapioca arrived, I was aghast. The usually pearly achromatic beads were agleam red, due to the fact that they had been cooked successful reddish wine. I similar my tapioca the accepted way, consecutive from the box. And it should lone instrumentality a infinitesimal to navigator (it’s not called Minute Tapioca for nothing!).” (p. 321)

“Little birds with their heads inactive connected and snails successful achromatic legume sauce,” with Pierre Trudeau astatine “my favourite Chinese restaurant, a small 5 connected the country of Bayard Street and Bowery successful Chinatown.” (p. 321)

Moussaka, Persian rice, and cocoa soufflé, astatine Barbra’s apartment, connected yet different day with Pierre Trudeau, who yet failed to seizure her imperishable affections. “I had taken cooking lessons with a Persian woman, but I lone had clip for a few, truthful my repertoire was constricted … (This was the first, and astir apt the last, clip I cooked a superior repast for somebody.”) (p. 322)

“Delicious luncheon of oyster stew,” backmost astatine Pierre Trudeau’s authoritative residence. “(He gave maine each of his oyster crackers, which made maine similar him adjacent more.)” (p. 324)

Milk and Mallomars, alongside Pierre Trudeau, for his nightly bedtime snack. Barbra “pulled disconnected the chocolate-covered marshmallow apical due to the fact that I lone wanted the graham cracker bottom.”  (p. 324)

Knishes with blueberry cheese, “oh my God!,” at Yonah Schimmel’s, portion connected the run way with Congresswoman Bella Abzug. “I went backmost determination recently, and it wasn’t rather the aforesaid … but I conjecture it’s hard, adjacent for a knish, to unrecorded up to your memories.” (p. 351)

“The champion crockery dressing,” made by her hairstylist Kaye Pownall connected the acceptable of The Way We Were. Pownall “used crushed sunflower seeds mode earlier they were popular.” (p. 375)

Hoisin spare ribs, in her “tiny galley room that wasn’t conducive to cooking,” successful the barn she concisely owned with hairstylist-turned-megalomaniac fellow Jon Peters. (p. 415)

Hot cocoa and bagels, connected Hanukkah and Christmas greeting astatine 6 a.m, in the aforesaid barn. (p. 416)

Cha siu bao, “a steamed bun filled with Cantonese-style roast pork,” 1 of Barbra’s “favorite things,” astatine a Chinese edifice successful a edifice successful Australia during her 2000 Timeless tour. “I had cha siu bao for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. (Why not?)” She ate them again soon thereafter astatine the behest of seasoned cinematographer James Wong How, a “sweetheart” who “knew astir my obsession and won my bosom by bringing maine homemade cha siu bao. God, they were delicious.” When the 2 “weren’t discussing lighting, we were discussing Chinese food.” (p. 423)

“Huge platter of oysters,” at Les Halles successful Paris, served “straight disconnected the docks” and which, respective hours later, enactment Barbar “on my knees successful the bath astatine the Plaza Athenée, throwing up.” (p. 430)

Sukiyaki dinner, with Francis Ford Coppola, who suggested she rubric her caller medium Lazy Afternoon. (p. 434)

Hypothetical “greasy spare ribs,” successful a hypothetical restaurant, successful a hypothetical concern wherever hypothetical radical interrupt this hypothetical repast due to the fact that they “see a star,” past “interrupt a speech with my lad to inquire for an autograph oregon effort to instrumentality a representation successful a restaurant.” “Let maine beryllium clear. I’m grateful to my fans. They person supported maine for decades. But sometimes I conscionable privation to decorativeness my spare rib.” (p. 448)

Bagels, Nova lox, pick cheese, peanut food and jelly, prosciutto, honeydew melon, cheese, fruit, cookies, brownies (with walnuts!), and “usually Chinese food, my favorite,” for dinner, astatine her signaling workplace portion she was moving connected Guilty, her 22nd workplace album, with Barry Gibb, who asked her to sing each opus 10 times. “I complied, but singing thing 10 times gets benignant of boring, truthful I had to find immoderate excuse to instrumentality a interruption … similar food. Whenever I’m intensely concentrating connected something, I get hungry. I accidental a therapist would accidental it’s an anxiousness suppressant, but for maine it’s much basic. When I’m working, I request food!” (Gibb confirms that they had to “lock her up erstwhile the nutrient came, due to the fact that she ever wanted to eat.”) (p. 500)

Homemade cookies with beverage and dainty English sandwiches, at her bully friends Marilyn and Alan Bergman’s house, wherever they wrote the songs and lyrics for Yentl. (p. 520)

Pork sandwich with mayonnaise connected achromatic bread, astatine the German deli aft taking acting classes successful Manhattan, which she brings up retired of guilt arsenic she’s penning astir Yentl. “It was truthful goyishe! The yeshiva bucher (kid) successful maine ever felt guilty. But erstwhile I was told astir a definite commentary successful the Talmud, it benignant of relieved me. It said, ‘If a Jew is enactment successful situation and forced to devour pork … Enjoy it!’ Now that’s the benignant of cognition I tin subordinate to!” (p. 524)

“Ham, salami and much ham, and ham sandwiches connected achromatic bread,” astatine the American Embassy successful Prague, portion connected a scouting travel for Yentl. (p. 538)

Coffee crystal pick and Frangelico, with her champion person Cis, to observe United Artists producing Yentl (before the institution dropped out). (p. 540)

“My regular sandwich of turkey connected brownish breadstuff with saccharine horseradish condiment oregon Branston pickle … and past beverage with scones and clotted pick and mashed caller strawberries (way amended than jam. And nary raisins successful the scones please!),” during Yentl rewrites with British screenwriter Jack Rosenthal, whose ideas she didn’t ever similar but helium “added a fewer bits of bully dialogue,” astatine the Berkeley Hotel successful Knightsbridge. (p. 542)

Whipped-cream donut, from Wimpy’s oregon McDonald’s, aft puking from nerves connected the mode to the acceptable of Yentl. (p. 550)

English beverage of Cornish pasties, scones, and sweets, brought successful for everyone, astatine astir 4 p.m. each time connected the acceptable of Yentl. (p. 557)

Scones with caller strawberries and clotted cream, ordered by Barbra arsenic a “treat for everyone” connected a level to Czechoslovakia to sprout the 2nd fractional of Yentl, but which were delivered late. “As the aviator was revving up the engines, I called, ‘Stop the plane!’ The scones had arrived but not the cream. We had to hold a spot but yet it was loaded connected (and it was worthy the wait). Once we were successful the air, I walked down the aisle and served everyone.” (p. 550)

“Little pockets of dough, benignant of squares similar ravioli, but wrong they were filled with apricot, and the full happening was topped with a condiment made of rubbery cheese,” made by a Czech villager who moved retired of her location truthful that Barbra could unrecorded person to set. “I’m not making it dependable good, but spot me, it was truly delicious.” (p. 562)

Ham-and-cheese croissant, and “all the cocoa covered marzipan I could eat,” on the time Yentl opened. “I went to the Village Theatre successful Westwood astatine noon to marque definite the dependable was close and the representation was right, and said to myself, That’s each I tin do. Then I thought, To hellhole with my diet!” (p. 578)

“Bread, truthful good, with fresh, room-temperature saccharine butter,” at the Parisian premiere of Yentl. “I conscionable looked done photos from that night. I’m sitting connected a acheronian reddish velvet banquette with Jeanne Moreau and Charles Azvanour, and I’m the 1 eating the bread.” (p. 591)

“The astir fantastic quadrate pasta with a delicious citrus and caper sauce,” made by Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller during Yentl’s Italian property tour. “I tin inactive sensation it now.” (p. 593)

Hypothetical food from France and apples from Oregon, successful the mediate of a haunted statement of Chernobyl, told successful the benignant of precise circumstantial item that Barbra reserves for nary different existent oregon past sociopolitical lawsuit successful the book. “Something happened successful Russia, and present we had to interest astir eating food from France and apples from Oregon, due to the fact that we were each downwind … Was this the opening of the extremity of the world?” Ultimately this obsession with atomic disarmament got Barbra backmost onstage singing unrecorded for the archetypal clip successful 20 years to enactment the predetermination of Democrats. (p. 628)

Whatever she wants, when she’s editing and not directing, “since I don’t person to beryllium acrophobic astir my weight.” (p. 720)

“The past wound of a molten cocoa barroom with vanilla crystal cream,” fixed to composer James Newton Howard, which meant she truly liked him. “Before that moment, I’d lone springiness my past wound to my son!” (p. 722)

Tea, with Jacqueline Onassis, past an exertion astatine Doubleday, who approaches Barbra to inquire her to constitute her memoir. (She declines.) (p. 737)

Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews with Steve Ross, the president and co-CEO of Time Warner (which included Warner Bros.), who stocked them connected Warners’ planes. “Steve and I some loved [them],” Barbra says; they utilized to devour them arsenic kids successful Brooklyn. (p. 757)

Cookies astatine the Golden Door, the exclusive wellness spa, wherever Barbra goes with Ross’s wife, Courtney; she was trying to suffer weight, Barbra was trying to summation weight, “but I ended up eating each the cookies she near connected her sheet and ended up gaining 5 pounds.” (p. 757)

Can’t retrieve what, but something, before singing astatine a backstage enactment for the Canadian premier curate Brian Mulroney. The host, Barbra’s person David Foster, convinces her to sing, but she ate excessively soon earlier doing so, retired of nerves, and approached the microphone “feeling stuffed.” She sings a fewer bars, freezes, and stops. (p. 779)

According to Rex Reed, a banana, whose peel she threw connected the floor, a revelation from an interrogation during the filming of Color Me Barbra. However! This communicative is “ridiculous,” due to the fact that “as anyone who knows maine knows … 1 happening I americium is obsessively neat.” Barbra vents to her parent astir the full incident, and is incensed further erstwhile her parent asks “Did you propulsion the peel connected the floor?” (p. 800)

“Half a cantaloupe, immoderate chickenhearted soup, and a mates stalks of celery,” gifts from Barbra’s mother, Diana, erstwhile Barbra archetypal moved to Manhattan to prosecute acting. Diana’s mode of showing emotion was “giving maine food.” (p. 802)

Boxes of M&Ms onboard President Clinton’s level arsenic they alert backmost to Washington aft Virginia Clinton’s funeral. (p. 810)

“Delicious” integrated oat biscuits from his ain brand, Duchy Originals, sent by King (then Prince) Charles. (p. 817)

Lobster sausage with wild-mushroom risotto astatine the archetypal Clinton authorities dinner, which was “delicious,” present that “the caller cook had jettisoned each those fancy French dishes for simpler American fare.” (p. 824)

Ben & Jerry’s low-fat Cherry Garcia yogurt, which she recommends to President Clinton successful a enactment that she writes but ne'er sends. (p. 833)

Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, oregon coffee ice cream, which Barbra offers to caller emotion involvement James Brolin’s 8-year-old girl astatine a Fourth of July barbecue. The girl declines, explaining, “my ma says it isn’t bully for you.” (p. 867)

Two blistery dogs with mustard and relish, which she eats aft the Fourth of July barbecue; she avoids eating astatine the lawsuit itself due to the fact that she was “motivated to diet” for James Brolin and besides, “no uncertainty I would person spilled mustard connected my top,” but past things with Jim don’t spell good and astatine location afterward she asks her adjunct Renata to marque her the blistery dogs she missed, positive 2 java ice-cream cones “while I work the latest contented of The Economist. I thought, No much relationships. Back to politics.” (p. 868)

A container of See’s candies (metaphorical), which Barbra describes herself arsenic successful her journal, due to the fact that “you can’t archer if a portion is going to beryllium saccharine oregon salty, brushed oregon crunchy. Will determination beryllium an almond oregon a kumquat inside?” (p. 876)

Smoked salmon with leek crème fraiche, babe blintzes, wonton pillows stuffed with vegetables, sushi, coconut shrimp, pizza, soft-shell crabs, chaotic mushroom ravioli, grilled vegetables, potatoes au gratin, brownies with and without walnuts, lukewarm cocoa lava cake, caller berry tarts, profiteroles with vanilla crystal cream, java ice-cream cones, lemon-meringue tarts, and cocoa breadstuff pudding, served astatine her wedding to James Brolin. (p. 879)

Potatoes with caviar, added to the wedding paper astatine the past minute. (p. 882)

Hot chocolate, drunk astatine her table betwixt 6:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., portion monitoring the banal markets during her day-trading period, 1998-2000. (p. 894)

An ice-cream cone, with Don Miguel Ruiz, writer of The Four Agreements, a publication Barbra consults portion mourning her mother. (p. 902)

“A immense barroom with bittersweet cocoa icing,” in solemnisation of their anniversary, presented to her by James Brolin onstage astatine a performance successful Berlin. (p. 911)

McConnell’s Brazilian Coffee crystal cream, which Barbra peculiar orders to devour onscreen with Seth Rogen successful The Guilt Trip. “Every time connected the acceptable I’d person 2 scoops connected a sweetener cone, and of people I’d marque 1 for Seth, and aft the country was changeable we inactive had capable to provender the full unit for a week.” (p. 917)

Club sandwiches from country work astatine the Savoy, astatine 3 a.m. aft performing astatine a performance successful Hyde Park successful London, “with other French fries for Renata (which she ne'er got to eat, due to the fact that she was excessively engaged packing).” (p. 957)

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